August 5, 2005
Korean Scientist Reveals Cloned Dog
South Korea's "king of cloning" has successfully cloned an Afghan hound called Snuppy. But producing the pup was far from easy. The team transferred 1095 embryos into 123 surrogate mothers - but just three pregnancies resulted.
Yes. Cloned humans are next despite what Hwang Woo-suk says publicly. In fact, he has already done it:
Embryonic stem cell research scientist Hwang Woo-suk has already cloned a human embryo, though he didn't allow the embryo to go through a normal pregnancy to be born. Now, he's the first researcher to use cloning processes to create a dog.And, in order to commemorate this "breakthrough" the South Korean government plans on commissioning stamps that will show the "hope" of Hwang's research. Hidden Nook writes:Hwang's team has created Snuppy, an Afghan hound now 14 weeks of age.
Gerald Schatten, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a colleague of Hwang, called the dog "a frisky, healthy, normal, rambunctious puppy."
These stamps will depict an egg, a man in a wheelchair, the man rising and later on embracing a woman.
HT: Hyscience
Posted August 5, 2005 12:17 PM
